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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Levuka in Fiji

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Earthquake location -17.8471S, -178.1231WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 272 km E of Levuka, Fiji (169 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:02:51 / 8:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 505.502 km (314 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/25 / 2025-10-28 20:02:51 / October 28, 2025 @ 8:02 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rnz1. Unique identifier: us6000rnz1. Exact location of event, longitude -178.1231 West, latitude -17.8471 South, depth = 505.502 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 272 km E of Levuka, Fiji.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.1231° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.8471° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 505.502 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 272 km E of Levuka, Fiji Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-28 20:02:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-18 21:03:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 271 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rnz1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rnz1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rnz1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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